Rep. MAGNUSON proposes the following Amendment No. to H.5126 as introduced by Ways & Means

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EXPLANATION: Instructs DPH and DHHS to inform patients about conception and state law

Amend the bill, as and if amended, Part IB, Section 117, GENERAL PROVISIONS, page 572, after line 9, by adding an appropriately numbered proviso to read:

/(GP: Conception) (A) The Department of Public Health and the Department of Health and Human Services must create pamphlets and signage informing Medicaid patients that life begins at conception and that state law restricts the performance of an abortion on a pregnant woman once an unborn child's fetal heartbeat has been detected.

(B) Printed material should explain that unborn children at twenty weeks gestation and beyond are fully capable of feeling pain, the right of a woman seeking an abortion to ask for and receive anesthesia to alleviate or eliminate pain to the fetus during an abortion procedure, and that anesthesia provided to a woman for an abortion typically offers little pain prevention for the unborn child. /

Renumber sections to conform.

Amend totals and titles to conform.